While this problem won't go away soon, the Times piece suggests how it will be explained away.
Her outrageous spending, life-decisions and general behavior can be explained away by one thing, and one thing only: certified celebrity.
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So the Canadians, offspring of the British parliamentary tradition, have to be explained away as closet southerners clinging to the border.
Tribal wrong-doing is often explained away as a reasonable reaction to years of oppression, an explanation that many tribes do not discourage.
Most Israelis explained away Sharon's behavior in his first term as the price he was forced to pay for his coalition government with Labor.
January sales were almost 4% higher than January of 2012 but were down nearly 3% from December, a fact that can be explained away by seasonal cycles.
For that somebody to emerge, however, first CNN needs to make itself a place where success and failure are acknowledged and owned, not accepted or explained away.
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Consumers in neighbouring Slovakia, for instance, are five times less likely to buy a package holiday than are Czechs, a difference not entirely explained away by Slovakia's poorer economy.
And, if there is any notice at all given to that recent run-up in yields, it is merely explained away as a sign of robust growth returning to the economy.
Ballooning losses were easily explained away by the investment bankers as the new "EBE (earnings before expenses) Model" of valuation, which buy-side analysts on the road show swallowed like ice cream.
Moreover the tail of underachievement is long and cannot be explained away by immigration: around a fifth of British students cannot read properly and a similar number are flummoxed by simple sums.
But the evidence meant to show that foreign money had worked its way into Democratic coffers was circumstantial at best, and without further proof could be explained away as routine investment and consulting fees.
This way if there is an extra kid or two at the party, they will get a gift too and the lack of the label can be explained away as lazy elfs or something.
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To his own numbers, Bartlett may well reply today that tax rates can no longer be explained away as the reason for a reduction in startups, and subsequent IPOs (46 in 2010 versus 210 in 2000).
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But John Dunford, general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association warned that there were "no instant solutions" to resolving the gender gap in this year's GCSE results, which he said could not be explained away by the "laddish culture".
From the use of surrogate endpoints (based on biological plausibility and the results of preclinical studies) to the distinction between correlation and causation, confounding (whether the effect size is too large to be explained away by confounding), and the hypothesis-generating nature of the inferential process.
The failure to do so after the first of the 21-sickle cell related deaths over the past decade and other heart-related deaths cannot objectively be explained away without serious doubt about whether there was sufficient caring and action at a high level for those student athletes.
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Piquet explained the incident away at the time that he was trying too hard, made a mistake and scraped one wall a little too closely.
He explained that Miscavige had been away from the Gold Base for some time, and when he returned he discovered that in his absence many jobs had been reassigned.
Romney never explained how he managed to put away that kind of money with the existing contribution limits.
"Light coming in at a high angle will illuminate the sides of the blades, causing them to retreat away, " he explained.
The Dow went up 150 points or so right away, as financial TV explained that the market was expecting a worse number, so this was a good surprise.
"The way in which you transform an atom into an ion is either by adding or taking away an electron, " he explained.
Paterson explained that there has been a huge shift away from a security model where companies put everything in the middle of a network and build a firewall around it.
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Mortified at seeing a fisherman slicing open a sturgeon and throwing away the roe, the princess explained they were a prized delicacy in Russia and sent an expert to teach the locals how to make caviar.
Prof Tony Mills who grew up in the village explained that it was a feeling which never went away.
"Our campus is only a few miles away from Llanddewi Brefi, " he explained.
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Knight explained in a letter to Glass that he was staying away because he thought his attendance would create a media hubbub that would detract from the other inductees.
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